Beltane at Annwfn
2025-05-02 - 2025-05-04 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We are bringing back the Beltane festival at Annwfn! May 2-4, 2025, on our sacred land at Annwfn. Featuring May Games, bardic circle, potluck feasts, bonfire, Maypole dance, silent auction, and more! $25 to $50 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Bring camping gear, layers for possible weather, a contribution for a bardic circle, food to
share, extra water, and altar offerings. Annwfn will provide kitchen gear and a main course for the Saturday feast. Please contact Diana Morningstar at diana@miragearts.com for more info or details. Click here to register!
Work trade is available for volunteer kitchen work, vehicle shuttle, and preparation work at the work parties.

Renaissance Pleasure Faire Live the Dream Outing
2025-05-10 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Renaissance Pleasure Faire at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, 15501 E, Arrow Highway, Irwindale, CA, 91706, United States
We will visit the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California on Saturday, May 10, 2025, from 10 AM to 5 PM (roughly). Please join us on this outing! We’ll see you at the Faire!
Call the Live The Dream hotline, 818-886-0069, to coordinate. For more information about the Faire, visit the Faire’s website!

Renaissance Pleasure Faire Poly Connections
2025-05-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California was founded by Phyllis and Ron Patterson in 1963. Between that time and this couples have met at the Faire, married in its Wedding Garden, and brought their children back to enjoy it. Some of them have been in Guilds which feature role play Families which can become very real for the 6-12 weekends of Faire and preparing for Faire each year… perhaps for decades.
The children may regard Faire family as Aunts, Uncles and perhaps cousins by Choice. There are couples who having met at Faire and formed romantic relationships there, have legal marriages separate from Faire. In some cases, spouses who do not go to Faire or choose put in the time and commitment necessary to be part of one of these Guilds know about these romantic connections which have perhaps gone on for many years before they knew or married their husband or wife and have consented to them.
If they meet and form friendships with such people, it can lead to kitchen table polyamory or even group marriage. Or they may just accept that for the weekends of Faire, this relationship will continue separately from the marriage.
Some of this may depend on whether the other partner lives close enough to spend time together separate from Faire. I believe that as long as the non-Faire spouse knows and willingly consents to the arrangement, it is poly. If they do not know or do not willing consent to it, that is just garden variety cheating. What do you think?

Building an Intimate Network of Friends and Lovers at Any Age
2025-06-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
What is is like to be 72? I once thought it meant sitting by the fire in a rocking chair, wrinkled, tired, and remembering better days. Reporting from the front lines, it ain’t so. I
have an active love life, both with my romantic husband and our lovers who bring us delight in our bed which is big enough for four to sleep and cuddle in. Five can fit for… other activities.
My husband and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary April 28 (a bit early) in Hawaii!
Many of my friends and lovers have been in my life for decades. The co-author of our book, Fifty Years of Polyamory in America, Glen Olson has been my best friend since we were in high school.
At age 15, we were part of a sensitivity group which featured weekly evening meetings for doing verbal and sensual exercises, ranging from sharing our discovery of how opposite (and delightful) the opposite sex could be, to exploring each other’s faces with curious, gentle fingers. We had birthday parties and kidnap breakfasts, too. The difference between this and most teen gatherings was that at any moment the mood could shift and if one of us needed to TALK about something, get advice or blow off steam, we could.
Glen and I read Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land when we were 15 and Shared Water as written in the book. This creates Family by Choice, which can be at least as close as Family by blood. Others in our group Shared Water with each other and some with us. The two Nests became One when at age 18 I I grew close enough with a girl in the other Nest to want her as water kin.
Today we have a Nest of 12 who get together pretty regularly in various configurations. Most of these have joined us along the way in our adult lives, such as my second husband Paul and his wife Athena.
Others are further out in our orbit geographically, such as the leader of our sensitivity group in high school, Art. My husband Craig and I visit him in Northern California when we go to The Great Dickens Christmas Faire, at which he plays a dear friend of Charles Dickens himself. The connection when we do get together is as close as it was when he and I were teenagers.
It is wonderful to share old memories and create new ones. We visit Kathy and Dean in that area, too. Our water kin (since 1987) Dave and Eileen sometimes join our LTD meetings on Zoom from the state of Washington, and we visit them in their cooperative living community every year or three.
Oberon and Rhianon Zell were in town here before their Tennessee wedding in May of 2024, at which I handled the guest book. Oberon (founder and primate of Church of All Worlds) conducted a meeting of most of those in our LA Nest at that time. It was very special for all of us. Guess that is pushing 22 geographical barriers aside.
What does it take to develop that kind of intimate network? Hint: you DON’T have to start it in high school. This meeting is about exactly how you can make it happen in your life. Whether you are 18 or 70 you can create the joy of CONNECTION in your life starting NOW! Join us by Zoom or in person for this meeting to find out how! Hugs and hot tubs are better in person if you are local…
After lunch, there will be a summer solstice ritual led by Terry and Craig.

Is It Heart-Safe for People with Poly Life Histories and People With Monogamous Life Histories to Date? To Marry?
2025-07-19 11:00 - 16:00 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Is it possible to become poly after living monogamous or celibate for most of your adult life? The answer is yes.

The Harrad Experiment: Learning to be Poly in College
2025-08-16 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Will Jarvis attended Goddard College, an experimental college in Vermont. Robert Rimmer lived nearby in Massachusetts, and is thought to have used Goddard College as a foundation when he wrote The Harrad Experiment. The one in the book featured coed dorms in which young men and women were encouraged to form relationships ranging from friendship to sexual love connections. How much of the real life school was reflected in the book? We’ll find out!
Led by Will Jarvis.

Darkover Novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Filk!
2025-09-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We’ll discuss fascinating novels based on the concept of a world on which a few hundred Terrans were marooned in crashed space ships hundreds of years ago and were forced to build a viable community from this limited gene pool. Many women found themselves unable to bear children on the new world. This resulted in a society where a fertile woman having more than one child by the same man was considered a kind of selfishness. Group marriage became the norm and ties of fosterage frequently stronger than ties of blood.
Many new writers as well as successful professional writers have chosen to create stories in the Darkover universe dealing with the alternative lifestyle of multiply committed relationships. We’ll focus on Marion’s own Spell Sword and Forbidden Tower, two novels based on a real life two couple group marriage which lasted 16 years!
1 pm Pot Luck lunch—bring something healthy and delicious to share
2-4 Socializing in clothing optional hot tub.
We may watch a Poly Movie or do verbal/nonverbal sensitivity exercises between the meeting and the Filk as the group decides.
6 Pot Luck dinner – bring something healthy and delicious to share.
Filk Sing follows at 6:30 on Zoom and in person—music of science fiction and the Space Age from the Ballad of Appollo 13 to the hilarious Star Trek based Banned from Argo in all its many forms. We have all kinds of Poly Filk, too, including selections from Kathy Mar’s Living the Dream album and Craig Brussel Roger’s Half of Me. You should see what he does with The Tennessee Waltz!

Building a Faire Family/Intentional Community: Koroneburg
2025-10-18 10:00 - 23:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Twenty-Nine Years of the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival
with Baron Henirich von Laufer
Presented by the Baron Himself, Chuck Spitler
For 29 years, Chuck Spitler has been the Baron. Played him as an actor? Maybe at first, but after a generation or two of children have grown up spending 6 weekends of summer with this Uncle by choice and are now bringing their children to see the Faire, be in jousts for the Baron’s entertainment, and just EXPERIENCE it, the Baron in many ways is the Reality. This is not like the Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California, where the Queen is just an actress playing a role. I have seen the owners of this Faire wisely taking council with the Baron on many things, from promotion to the activities being offered to who should be in them.
The buildings were real and stood all year round, creating a feeling of traveling through Time to be there.
In August of 2025, dark news came that Koroneburg was to be closed down after Riverside County Parks decided not to offer the Festival a renewed lease. All those beloved buildings, knocked down and gone!
Is there a way that Koroneburg could be brought back to Life? Perhaps. Chuck is in the process of writing a book about the Koroneburg Renaissance Festival – its history and how to build something like this wherever you are. That will keep it alive for those who come after.
11 to 1 Poly discussion live and on zoom. Live only after that.
1 Pot Luck lunch – bring something healthy and delicious to share.
2 to 3:45 Afternoon activity: Exercises for developing intimacy – empathic communication to enhance your love life and friendships. Clothing-optional jacuzzi available.
4 to 5:45 Socializing in the shaded, clothing-optional hot tub or watch a Poly movie in the living room.
6 Pot Luck dinner – bring your favorite Halloween-themed dish to share with 10 people.
7:15 All Hallows Eve Samhain Ritual led by Terry and Craig Brussel Rogers.
8 to 11 Halloween Party. If you want to present anything perhaps relating to the costume (or body paint) you choose to wear, do let us know. We may play the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s traditional, after all!

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ‒ How to Keep Your Poly Relationship(s) Joyous!
2025-11-15 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
We will discuss some ways to avoid a breakup or (perhaps) mend it.
Some breakups are permanent situations in which you will likely never see that person, couple or ? again. Unlikely in the poly community unless they live in another state. Perhaps not even then if you attend same science fiction conferences, poly conventions, Live the Dream meetings etc.
Some breakups involve seeing the other person or people frequently if you share children, grand kids, close friends/water kin and other personal or business connections.
Poly relationships are less breakable if they bend.
A transition may be better than an end.

Loscon 51, Thanksgiving Weekend at LAX Hilton
2025-11-30 10:00 - 23:00 | Loscon at the LAX Hilton Hotel, 5711 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Catch Glen Olson and Terry Brussel-Rogers, co-authors of Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement, at Glen’s fan table at various times throughout Loscon 51. See Glen’s SF novels on display there!
Scence Fiction Entry into Polyamory
You are welcome to join us Sunday morning November 30, 2025, at 10 am for Poly Discussion over bagels, cream cheese and fruit in room _____ (TBD, call 818-388-5612 Friday, Saturday, or Sunday).
Were you inspired by the Line Marriage from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress? Warmed by the Nest in Stranger In A Strange Land? Fascinated by the even more unusual group marriages/empathic groupings in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover Novels or Spider Robinson’s Star Dance and Callahan stories? Or have you been reading more current writers such as Ryk E. Spoor, Wen Spencer, or Todd McCaffery ,or the even more specifically Poly writings of Todd’s sister Gigi McCaffrey? All of these authors write Poly inclusive stories.
Dreams can come true… people like us do not exist only in SF books! Come meet some kindred spirits. We’ll share our experiences in real triads, group houses, open marriages, etc. and help you figure out which alternative would help you live your dream!

Poly SF Sampler Discussion, Winter Solstice Ritual, Hanukkah and Winter Holiday Party
2025-12-20 11:00 - 23:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Discuss the Poly content in stories by Robert A Heinlein, Spider Robinson, S. M. Stirling, and others. Enjoy a potluck lunch. Laze about in the hot tub, discussing polyamory, science fiction, and other topics. Enjoy a potluck dinner. Celebrate the winter solstice in a ritual lead by High Priestess Lilith. Exchange gifts. Play and listen to music. Sing a bit. Have a good time.

Room Available at Live the Dream’s Group House near Northridge, CA
2026-01-02 - 2026-02-01 | Penfield Houe, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306-1403, United States
Room Available at Live the Dream’s Group House near Northridge, CA
8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA 91306
ROOM with private FULL BATH, its own large closet and book case for an avid reader.
AVAILABLE IN A GROUP HOUSE IN WEST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY – CALIFORNIA
$1200 includes rent, utilities and internet. Couple $1400
Optional: $85 a week per person includes food + use of washer/dryer including laundry
detergent, etc.
$100 per person a month for use of washer/dryer including laundry detergent, etc., without food.
Home of Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, (founder and organizer of Live the Dream) and her husband Craig Brussel Rogers + 1 other lady (a retired nurse with us since 2015) and 3 gentlemen one of whom is a poly writer who was with us when we bought the house in 2003.
Many of our concepts on relationships come from Robert Heinlein’s stories Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Our home is a beautiful one in a nice neighborhood of the west San Fernando Valley. It has two fireplaces, a high ceilinged grand living room, dining area, and big country kitchen. Washer and dryer are available. We have a clothing optional hot tub. We share good conversation, holidays, outings, special occasions,
hugs… and household chores.
Imagine coming home to a beautiful house, a well kept yard filled with flowers and trees. Space for a garden if you have a green thumb. The fire place may be lit if it is winter. You come home to the smell of something delicious being cooked by one of your housemates. Or perhaps you are the housemate doing that cooking—that nurturing. You share a good dinner with whoever is at home tonight. Afterward, you might enjoy the massage chair, go to the privacy of your room,
soak in the hot tub with good friends, join a lively discussion in the living room or cuddle by the fire.
Sound good? MAKE YOUR FANTASY A REALITY… If you have an interest in living in a lovely home with warm, caring, like minded people. Call (818) 886-0069 for more information.

Memorial for Leslie Fish
2026-01-17 11:00 - 23:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Live the Dream will host a memorial day for Leslie Fish, Poly anarchist and prolific filk writer/performer.
Joining us for this Memorial to speak about Leslie and share their personal experiences with her:

Oberon Zell, founder of Church of All Worlds, the first officially recognized Neopagan religion in the US.

Paul Gibbons, Political Activist/Libertarian/Anarchist and Water Brother to Leslie Fish.

Elaine Anderson, Deputy Lady in Waiting to the Queen of Caid in the SCA for 2025.

Terry Brussel-Rogers, Founder of Live the Dream and Leslie’s Water Brother will share her knowledge of some of Leslie’s Poly experiences.

Additional speakers may be announced in the future.
The day includes a potluck lunch and a potluck dinner. There is afternoon time for discussion, socializing, etc.
In the evening, Live the Dream will host the monthly LAFA (Los Angeles Filkers Anonymous) filksing, focusing on Leslie and her music.
The Live the Dream meeting will be Live and On Zoom 11am – 1 pm PT.
The LAFA filk will be Live and On Zoom 6 – 11 pm PT; the first hour will be a live and virtual dinner, with music commencing at 7 pm PT.

Happy Valentine's Day Poly Style!
2026-02-14 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
2nd Saturday this month only due to Conscious Life Expo falling on the 3rd Saturday with Terry presenting that day (+ Terry being a 4th generation matchmaker).
Whether you are a single looking for a primary partner or partners, or a couple looking for a single or another couple, etc, there are MANY ways to get into the relationship you desire. We will talk about some of those ways as well as how to maintain and bring more Joy to ongoing romantic relationship… help them evolve into a live in situation if they haven’t gotten there yet and that is what you want.
If it is marriage you seek, that may look like an open committed legal marriage between two people or a plural marriage by contract with similar rights and responsibilities to a legal marriage. Whatever it is you want, it can be accomplished by knowing how to make it happen.
Terry wrote Choosing, Finding and Attracting Your Lifemate in 1992. Its most recent edition was introduced at Conscious Life Expo in February of 2020. That edition (with a newly updated Poly Supplement included) will be e-mailed as a gift to whoever attends this event on Zoom with a hard copy autographed edition given to whoever attends in person. A guided meditation for Attracting Your Special Someone(s) will climax the Zoom portion of this event.
Want some help with finding your Right One(s)? Call Terry Brussel-Rogers at 800-Life Mates. That’s 800-543-5628.

Fifty Years of Polyamory in America Made the Bold Authors Curated Reading List
2026-03-21 10:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Fifty Years of Polyamory in America: A Guided Tour of a Growing Movement, by Glen W. Olsen and Terry Lee Brussel-Rogers, made the Bold Authors curated reading list Listicle #2, titled Looking Ahead to 2026: Cultural & Social Perspectives That Matter. Glen Olsen will join us for our March 21, 2026, Live The Dream meeting to tell us all about it.

Live The Dream Annual Passover Seder
2026-04-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Penfield Houe, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306-1403, United States
This holiday commemorates the first time one People (the Jews) freed itself from bondage to another People (the Egyptians).
We’ll do this with plenty of group participation! You don’t have to read Hebrew for this or even be Jewish. Whether you want to learn more about your own heritage, just share this special
holiday with those you care about, or discover a cultural experience new to you, you are welcome!
This is coordinated pot luck since it requires special foods. This event is FREE to one clean up coordinator and a single or couple who volunteer to bring 5 pounds of lamb or 10
pounds of chicken.

Cost: $8.00 with arranged food contribution and one bottle of kosher wine for each adult in
your party, one bottle of grape juice for each child.
$18 each without food contribution + bring beverage.
Children under thirteen free with food, $5 without.

You can arrive 6-7 pm to socialize and help with preparations. Seder itself starts at 7:00 pm.
Led by Rob Milander.

Poly Intersection: Renaissance Pleasure Faire, Society for Creative Anachronism, and Dungeons & Dragons.
2026-04-18 11:00 - 16:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Led by Elaine Anderson.
Elaine has been a member of Queen’s Court in SCA several times, participated in Renaissance Pleasure Faire, and been active in Dungeons & Dragon activities for many years.
The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California was founded by Phyllis and Ron Patterson in 1963. In 1966, a group of friends (including the writers Diaba Paxson, Marion
Zimmer Bradley, Poul Anderson, and Karen Kruse Anderson) interested in historical reenactment and science fiction/fantasy founded the Society for Creative Anachronism at an
event now known as First Tournament in Berkeley, California.
Between that time and this couples have met at Faire or SCA, married in the Faire Wedding Garden and brought their children back to enjoy it. Some of them have been in Guilds which
feature role play Families which can become very real for the 6-12 weekends of Faire and preparing for Faire each year..perhaps for decades. This is even more true with SCA events
which occur several times a year and can involve staying on site for whole weekends or more for the Wars.

Beltane Celebration led by High Priestess Lilith
2026-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Penfield Houe, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306-1403, United States
Details TBA.

Outing to the Original Pleasure Faire in Irwindale, CA
2026-05-09 10:00 - 19:00 | Renaissance Pleasure Faire at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, 15501 E, Arrow Highway, Irwindale, CA, 91706, United States
BARDIC PLAYS, BAWDY SONGS, PAGEANTRY, UNUSUAL FOOD, SAUCY WENCHES and OTHER DELIGHTS.
CALL LTD HOT LINE 818-886-0069 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US THERE.
This will be forwarded to Terry’s cell phone day of Faire—call to connect with us on site.
Join us at 10:00 am for the Opening Parade, Faire closes at 6:30.
Location: at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, which is at the Irwindale exit off the 210 Freeway, just
east of where the 210 and 605 Freeways cross.

Spider Robinson's Poly Primers
2026-05-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon introduces a group of people who support each other in handling their problems and celebrating their joys. In this and later books they go beyond this to actual group telepathic communication. In Callahan’s Keys they show their commitment to each other by all moving out-of- state together when local laws and the abuse of them prevented them from meeting together where they were.
According to Spider’s biographical material, many of the metaphysical as well as the group related experiences come from his real-life ones with his expanded family and close friends during the ‘60s in Haight-Ashbury.
For more details, see the full article in the April-May Live the Dream Newsletter.

LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Polyamorous Communities, led by Rhiannon Zell
2026-06-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
If you seek to deepen respect, communication, and belonging, join us for a
discussion concerning LGBTQ+ Allyship & Inclusion in Polyamorous
Communities. Discover practical tools for creating relationships and group
cultures where every identity is honored and love can thrive in its fullest form.
Rhiannon Zell, wife of Oberon Zell since 2024, partners with him in many ways at
Pagan Gatherings nationwide. She has been a leader in the Pagan community
for decades.

Karaoke with KJ David Beal. Come sing with us!
2026-06-20 15:30 - 18:30 | Live the Dream Center, 8515 Penfield Ave., Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States

A Shared World by W. D. Beal. A book series, bedtime stories for adults. Led by the author, David Beal.
2026-07-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Live and on Zoom, 8515 Penfield Ave, Winnetka, CA, 91306, United States
A Shared World is a series of books with tales of magic and polyamory, as a
young couple learns how to love without exclusivity. Through an Entity known as
Magik, they discover their own abilities to intimately love each other and those
they are close to.
This series is written by W. D. Beal, who grew up around polyamory. He also had
connections to tantra through his late wife, Tantrica Shama, and other lovers.
